This paper studies the production techniques employed in economies that reproduce themselves. Special attention is paid to the distinction usually made between those that do not produce a surplus and those that do, which are referred to as first and second class economies, respectively. Based on...

The input-ouput model remains the basis of most SAM or CGE models. It actually uses two periods: the prices indexes solve it with the current period coefficients; the corresponding physical model is monoperiodic: the current prices solve it with the base period coefficients. The Leontief model...

In this paper we consider the matrix forms of the Sraffa-Leontief income distribution model introduced by Steenge (1995, 1997). We will explore the equivalence between these matrix forms and the set of simpler models, including the Sraffian condition of linear relations between the rate of...

The evolution of the rate of profit reflects both changes in income distribution and technical conditions of production. The purpose of this paper is to present estimates of the rate of profit for the Greek economy using input-output data spanning the period 1988-1997 and, at the same time, to...

This essay explores the ralationships between income distribution, capital accumulation and technological change in the long-run. It is shown that a falling rate of profit is not a necessity for the capitalist mode of production.

This paper presents the results of an empirical exploration of data from countries worldwide. Income distribution, as associated with the system of prices of production, fails to describe many economies. Economies in most countries or regions lie near their wage-rate of profits frontier, when...

This article studies the ratio of the rates of profit and growth, in a growing economy, as a function of the average productivity of capital. It is shown that, if the savings rate and also the distribution of income between wage and profit are constant, the ratio mentioned remains constant or...

In the Cambridge Capital Controversy, critics associated with Cambridge, UK, attack the logical coherence of neoclassical theory and claim to outline an alternative approach to economics. The most prominent neoclassical economists responding to the controversy acknowledge that many models in the...

This article analyzes cyber-communism and the feasibility of socialist planning from complexity theory. It first introduces the most known definitions of complexity in economics, namely computational and dynamic complexity. This enables to construct a complexity political economy from which then...

The Cambridge Capital Controversy is a long-lasting dispute over the validity and internal coherence of neoclassical theory. A number of textbooks are available to help teach the controversy. Some of these textbooks contain exercises and numeric examples. An important part of the controversy...